This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences an

This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages,

Contrastive Linguistics is the first book written by a linguist from mainland China on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting Chinese and Wes

This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question 'Do

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus